Whoops! I lost a character.

Saint Fool · Nov 13, 2008

The third night of NaNo I decided to let my MC's ex bring his second wife along. This was a huge mistake and resulted in the AARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH thread last night.

So at lunch, I'm writing a scene between the foursome and all of the sudden I realize I now have a trio. With tension, because the ex really wants the MC back and the new guy really likes her. The MC, of course, has conflicts because she still has feelings for her ex and he's not a bad guy (yet), and well, the new guy has a third eye in the middle of his forehead.

Which is the fun of Nano. If I were writing this in the real world, I'd feel obligated to go back and eliminate her now rather than continuing on with the story. Instead, I'll do that in January. Now on to 50,000+

Yeshanu · Nov 13, 2008

Or you can put in the guy with the gun...

Soccer Mom · Nov 13, 2008

Oh, I had that problem last year. See there was this dog and periodically, I would forget when he was in the scene and when he wasn't. There was much headdesking in January of the stupid pooch.

katiemac · Nov 13, 2008

I have a character who is intentionally losing himself. He's supposed to be showing up in all these scenes, dammit, but usually he just slips away unnoticed. And he's rather important, so I can't just cut him. Jerk.

dclary · Nov 13, 2008

Since I write segments out of order I realized last night that I had a character who was already dead give a eulogy at a funeral for another character. I'll have to revise that... in december.

Fresie · Nov 13, 2008

Soccer Mom said:
Oh, I had that problem last year. See there was this dog and periodically, I would forget when he was in the scene and when he wasn't. There was much headdesking in January of the stupid pooch.

Good job you reminded me, I keep forgetting I wanted to put a dog into the story.
:e2bear:

(The smilies' list says it's a bear but it'll do for a dog, I think)

Yeshanu · Nov 13, 2008

dclary said:
Since I write segments out of order I realized last night that I had a character who was already dead give a eulogy at a funeral for another character. I'll have to revise that... in december.

Or you could leave it in. It'd make an interesting premise -- zombie minister.

No, Ruth. Bad Ruth. Finish WIP first, Ruth, then do the zombie minister thing.

Or wait until you preach next, and do it for real. :tongue

dclary · Nov 13, 2008

Yeshanu said:
Or you could leave it in. It'd make an interesting premise -- zombie minister.

No, Ruth. Bad Ruth. Finish WIP first, Ruth, then do the zombie minister thing.

Or wait until you preach next, and do it for real.

Dearly beloved we are gathered here to pay our last respects for dear Henry.

Dear, dear Henry.

My he looks tasty.

Let's eat!

Soccer Mom · Nov 13, 2008

lkp · Nov 13, 2008

Dogs are a pain. I had one and I'd go for chapters and chapters and realize I hadn't mentioned it. Best behaved dog I every knew.

Saint Fool · Nov 13, 2008

Trivia: in the first edition of Michener's Texas, he killed a character and then killed him again about 10 pages later. Apparently it was corrected in later editions.

Getting rid of the second wife helped me immensely. 2494 tonight with two good scenes (and the knowledge that the previous scenes will work much better when I do the rewrites). YAY!

Of course, now I'm worried about the cat I have as a secondary character.

And I also want to write a zombie story based on the cheezeburger cat linked above. of course, if I want to pad the NaNo I could always have one character tell it to another, for pages, in gory detail ripped off from every one of Romero's movies.

Hmmm, we need a smiley for "thwacks self up the side of the head."

TheIT · Nov 14, 2008

Saint Fool said:
Hmmm, we need a smiley for "thwacks self up the side of the head."

I'm having fun introducing characters. I cut my MC's love interest from the first story with these characters, and now she's finally shown up in this story and landed right in the middle of an almost love triangle. This is going to be fun.

Red-Green · Nov 14, 2008

I hope this won't be another story in which guys with third eyes in the middle of their foreheads finish last.

Keep plugging away!

Saint Fool said:
The MC, of course, has conflicts because she still has feelings for her ex and he's not a bad guy (yet), and well, the new guy has a third eye in the middle of his forehead.

Whoops! I lost a character.

Saint Fool

Yeshanu

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Soccer Mom

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katiemac

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dclary

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Fresie

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Yeshanu

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dclary

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Soccer Mom

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lkp

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TheIT

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Red-Green

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